Whisperfish - The unofficial SailfishOS Signal client

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#590

I verified that sending an image was not working after starting whisperfish from the app drawer. Then I went to the terminal and tried to ping. This worked fine, and it pinged an ipv6 address. Then I tried to ping -4. This time it didn’t work, with the following error:

PING cdn.signal.org (52.222.139.33): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable

The same error occurs when I try to ping -4 google.com. I don’t know what this means.

But I think it’s more likely a permission problem than a network issue.

#591

@d.geelen, sounds a lot like what direc85 talk about here Whisperfish - The unofficial SailfishOS Signal client - #587 by direc85

#592

I’ve figured it out, so far as the attachments go. I added the RemovableMedia permission to the .desktop file and now I can see the sdcard when I go to browse ‘File System’ and sharing a picture from the picker also works and is shared properly.

For the network stuff I don’t quite know yet, but it looks like maybe ipv4 doesn’t work properly when roaming (not on wifi). But unlike the bug report by @direc85 I have never tried VoLTE yet.

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#593

FYI, I’ve added RemovableMedia to the privileges for the next release.

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#594

Thanks for sharing this, no wonder I couldn’t send pictures taken with Camera :slight_smile:

#595

Day two of the Whisperfish hackathon!

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Since yesterday, @direc85 and I are working very hard on some very necessary features and fixes in Whisperfish.

You can follow our progress on the Brussels 2022 code sprint milestone and follow live on Matrix.

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Sailfish Community News, 16th June, Whisperfish
#596

Good luck and all the best. Looking forward to Wisperfish 1.0.

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#597

Hi, very cool idea to have a hackathon! I see something on the issue list referencing a ‘share plugin’. What is it, I can’t find much info on it? Is it a way to integrate Whisperfish into the ‘share’ dialog in e.g. camera? Because that would be awesome :smiley:

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#598

Hi. Thank you for WP 0.6. I used it since several months. It works often very well and as expected. I only miss sometimes some pictures. Especially when they come in via a picture serie.

I’m looking forward to more versions and hope to see the first official version 1.0 soon.

Keep up the good work, rubdos and direc85 :+1:

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#599

This is so cool dudes!

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#600

Glad you enjoy it already. The pictures do already get downloaded and stored in the database, and almost half a year ago I started working on actually displaying them in the app. It’s a bit more difficult than I’d like it too, if it’s to be decent code. I might give it a go again if I can finish the message queue implementation that I now started.

Thank you all for your support!

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#601

Actually the share plugin (currently works only on SFOS 4.4) has already been released. It’s a separate RPM file, and you can download it from Openrepos. Making it work on SFOS 4.3 all the way down to 3.4 should be done during the hackathon, too!

And about the camera, there’s an in-app support for camera coming up for the next release, so stay tuned for that!

Ruben is also splitting Whisperfish and the share plugin into separate repositories, so it will be a lot easier to download the correct versions - determined by the Sailfish OS version installed.

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#602

Regarding the sqlite symbol conflict, have you tried building againt system sqlite instead of bundled, when building libsqlite-sys?
I’m sorry if this has already been covered, but I’m on mobile and couldn’t find any mentions of this (and unable to use the workaround).

When linking against a SQLite (or SQLCipher) library already on the system (so not using any of the bundled features), you can set the SQLITE3_LIB_DIR (or SQLCIPHER_LIB_DIR) environment variable to point to a directory containing the library. You can also set the SQLITE3_INCLUDE_DIR (or SQLCIPHER_INCLUDE_DIR) variable to point to the directory containing sqlite3.h.

https://crates.io/crates/libsqlite3-sys

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#603

Yes, we’ve tried against the system SQLcipher before. In fact, the reason that we started shipping our own, was is because of the conflict.

Meanwhile, you haven’t heard from us since the hackathon picture. We accomplished a lot of things, except for one: actually releasing it. Currently, time is a bit short, and I haven’t gotten around the few things I’d like to polish first. Soon™!

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#604

Whisperfish beta.10 :tada:

This is a huge release, thanks to the hackathon we did a month ago with @direc85 (see picture at Whisperfish - The unofficial SailfishOS Signal client - #595 by rubdos).

There’s a ton of useful changes for the users, and there’s also a lot of technical debt fixed that will make the next releases even more awesome. Diffstat since beta.9: 127 files changed, 11795 insertions(+), 5464 deletions(-) (and that’s huge)

Changes

Highlights:

  • Registration should work again! Thanks @direc85 and Gabriel Margiani !
  • Cover page is awesome!
  • Typing notifications are cute!
  • Display multiple attachments!
  • Resending failed messages!

This is quite a milestone. The next big milestone will be porting Rust 1.61 to SailfishOS, because that will allow us to further push the dependencies and implement all the new GroupV2 and sealed sending features more easily.

Beta 10 should become available the next few hours on OpenRepos automatically.

@flypig or any other moderator in here, is it an idea to allow me to edit the first post to update the change log? Wiki-style or just to remove the time limit?

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Sailfish Community News, 14th July, Sailfish OS 4.4.0.68
#605

Congratulations on the release. What a properly impressive set of improvements, I’m really looking forward to using it :grinning:

Would you be able to ping me a private message with some info to include in the newsletter (e.g. a short explanation of why Whisperfish is important; a description of the update and how your hackathon went; what your future plans are)? I can extract the info from your post here otherwise, but it’d be nice to have a little more context direct from you for users who aren’t so familiar with Whisperfish or Signal.

Unfortunately I don’t have the power to reset the timer. I can convert it to a wiki, but then anyone would be able to edit it. Would that still work?

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#606

Expect a DM :slight_smile:

A Wiki is maybe a bit too crazy; are there others who did that in the past? I imagine the community could also positively contribute to it, however.

#607

Great!

I’m not sure if anyone used a wiki for this purpose (we have many wikis used for a variety of things), but I don’t see why not. People are generally very considerate of the wikis I think, so you could add a sign asking only Whisperfish devs to edit it, and I’m sure others would respect that.

#608

I believe the most used wikified opening post is Apps that haven’t been ported to aarch64, and that seems to have worked very well! It was meant to be a collaborative post in the first place, which makes the “use case” a bit different, though. I think it’s worth a try anyway.

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#609

Sounds good, let’s try that!

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